Well, I knew that I was going to have big fucking feelings about this week's Strange New Worlds as soon as I heard the use of the verb "to out," as in 'Una was outed as being genetically modified,' but I thought we'd just get a ham-fisted metaphor.
Turns out we're in the "point right at it and say it" era of Trek, and I'm here for it.
We had an entire episode in which the politics of passing, the brutality of law to oppress people who are different, the way in which xenophobia ramps up, the concept of asylum… like… and it wasn't 'let's use this as a metaphor for queerness and transness and race and antisemitism', no, let's just FLAT OUT SAY "so they put the Illyrians in a ghetto, and some of us could pass, so we hid," and let's just SAY "hey this law is unjust, fucko, just like these other laws which discriminated against people because of their race, their queerness... Not a metaphor. Just an actual fucking conversation.
Trek has often struggled with their metaphors being ham-fisted because they don't just outright link point A to point B. The best Trek actively says 'this is the problem.'
Also, I love any episode where I can hear the "when did Trek get woke" crowd frothing five minutes in. That's when you know you have a good episode going.
Plus, holy shit, actual lawyers! Not captains showboating!
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I have to say, a season long The Chase sequel is exactly what I would have ordered for any Trek series at some point and I'm stoked that it's going to be Discovery
let's fly *insert Indiana Jones theme for good measure*
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the rules she breaks ... maybe they were broken to begin with
CPTNSEVEN, seven of nine of star trek voyager + picard, by zanza.
non-roleplay blogs don’t reblog!
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Thinking about how Jim said he always knew that when he died, he would die alone and like, Star Trek Generations
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im truly destined to love the heroic dumbass in every goddamn show, huh?
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can't believe we actually got an evil sexyman superpowered alternate version of simon who wants to have crazy sex with the og version of himself. thank GOD that didn't happen on 2013 or we would've been doomed
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I knew Book was coming back but hurrah hurrah Book is back ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ solving in 30 seconds the problem du jour and now if only I could see Grudge for a second all would be well
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I love that SNW hyposprays can be delivered
to the shoulder (like in TOS)
or to the neck (like in TNG).
Therefore implying possible health care provider choice for hypospray placement and methodology … which makes this even funnier:
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